Ending Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program
"America s first gilded age didn t merely end progressives had to fight to end it our forebears did battle decade after decade for proposals that dared to quot soak the rich quot how quaint that phrase...
View ArticleAn Epoch Named!
"With barack obama in the white house and the greatest economic meltdown since the great depression upon us an era may finally have ended an era that has dragged on excruciatingly for nearly three...
View ArticlePay-Cap Populism
"In his first week as president barack obama cited years of quot greed and irresponsibility on the part of some quot as a major contributing factor behind our economic meltdown in his second week he...
View ArticleOWS Revives the Struggle for Economic Equality
"The young men and women who launched occupy wall street haven t yet made our nation one whit less unequal but these occupiers have all the same overachieved magnificently they have thrust inequality...
View ArticleWhy Greater Equality Strengthens Society
"A placard placed against a war memorial in central london november 30 2011 reuters toby melville for american progressives looking at britain can sometimes seem like looking in a mirror the british...
View ArticleThe Great Regression
"Ap photo mike groll whatever happened to the progressive income tax the notion that taxpayers who make more money should pay taxes at a higher rate tax progressivity today has virtually disappeared we...
View ArticleSwiss Activists: Let’s Cap CEO Pay
"Not all that many generations ago the idea of an income floor for working americans a minimum wage seemed impractically utopian today we have mandated state and national minimum wages and the vast...
View ArticleHow US Tax Policy Encourages Outrageous CEO Compensation
"Over the top ceo pay has come to symbolize our nation rsquo s staggering economic inequality major corporate ceos now earn more than 300 times the pay of average workers up from 30 only a generation...
View ArticleOffshore Tax Havens Are Strangling Local Government
"Research from university of california berkeley economist gabriel zucman has shown that approximately 8 percent of the world rsquo s financial wealth resides in tax havens since 1980 the volume of us...
View ArticleWant Debt-Free College? Tax the Rich.
"Higher education has become a debt sentence for millions of americans limiting economic mobility and contributing to our growing economic divide student debt now tops 1 3 trillion and the burden...
View ArticleRetirement Benefits Are Rigged to Favor the Rich
"Our nation faces a retirement divide even wider than its income divide here rsquo s just one dramatic indicator from a recent center for effective government and institute for policy studies report...
View ArticleHow the Super-Rich Can Kickstart the Green Economy
"We know our future depends on finding a way to keep fossil fuels in the ground but who should bear the cost of the transition to a clean energy economy developing nations like india and china have...
View ArticleBlack Workers Matter, Too
"The black lives matter movement has focused a much needed spotlight on our nation rsquo s structural racism and the widespread criminalization of poverty the world of work should not be immune from...
View ArticleThe Secret to Funding Universal Pre-K Is Buried in the Tax Code
"Millions of americans sweat and strain at work every day they lift they pound they come home exhausted other americans make their living wheeling and dealing on wall street the most strenuous part of...
View ArticleHow Wall Street Reform Could Give Low-Income Families a Big Boost
"Low income americans particularly blacks and latinos face tremendous obstacles as they struggle to put aside money for investing according to a recent institute for policy studies report the...
View ArticleInequality Will Not Go Away On Its Own. Here’s How to Close the Gap.
"The immediate crisis may have passed but most americans still haven rsquo t recovered from the worst economic disaster since the great depression wealthy americans on the other hand are doing better...
View ArticleEnding Plutocracy: A 12-Step Program
"America s first gilded age didn t merely end progressives had to fight to end it our forebears did battle decade after decade for proposals that dared to quot soak the rich quot how quaint that phrase...
View ArticleAn Epoch Named!
"With barack obama in the white house and the greatest economic meltdown since the great depression upon us an era may finally have ended an era that has dragged on excruciatingly for nearly three...
View ArticlePay-Cap Populism
"In his first week as president barack obama cited years of quot greed and irresponsibility on the part of some quot as a major contributing factor behind our economic meltdown in his second week he...
View ArticleOWS Revives the Struggle for Economic Equality
"The young men and women who launched occupy wall street haven t yet made our nation one whit less unequal but these occupiers have all the same overachieved magnificently they have thrust inequality...
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